The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

bridges.
Last year IL, 100 folding beds were
told In Chicago.
The Cunard steamers each consume
$50 tons of coal a day.
Last year 100 elergymen went to
one New York theatre.
Hartford, Conn.,, is to to have a
lew $4,000 opera house.
There Is a Chinese cowboy in ATi-
sona. His name Is Wan Che.
The power of a leader depends upon
he weakness of his followers.
There are 400, 900 unmarried men
n Paris against 3S0,U00 married men.
During the year 1886, thirty-six
telegraph Offices were opened in China.
There are 100 ,OO0, 600 menin India
OF whom about 1000, 600 a read and
write.
"A blind man in Iowa can tell the
color of a red hot stove simply by touch
ing it.
African epicmes are credited with
3 strong weakness for baked young
monkey.
Julian H~awthorne's little 11-year-
old daughter can walk q mile in seven
minutes.
| 1t Is said that the white pine lum-
Der of Michigan will be exhausted IN a
few years.
Stock Exchange people sometimes
irreverently refer 10 mediums as IDEAL
ers in futures"
Women are acknowledged by the
Gar to be among his most efficient Sc
cret detectives.
Jean 1ngelow has been left a on
siderable fortune by the will Of a de-
ceassd relative in London.
Canada has a young Indian poetess
in the person of Pauline johnson, re-
siding at Brantford.
oil paintings are now used by a
Presbyterian preacher in fittSburg to
illustrate his sermons.
Every minor under 10 years of age
is to be pardoned out of the Tennessee
%penitentlary by the Governor Of that
State.
The main spring of a Waterbury
watch is twenty-four feet long. The
spring of an ordinary watch IS twenty
six inches.
"A society to assist servants to get
their wages" is said by the New York
Mail and Express to be one of the needs
Of that clty.
1t costs $4,000 in salaries for each
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opera, with 5000 per night to Tamagno
as the highest.
Queen Margherita of Italy does all
her W shopping and Is very well able
to take care of herself in managing her
domestic affairs.
Mr.. Beecher mtny years ago ex-
pressed the belief that death would
come to him. when 1t did come, in an
apoplectic stroke.
"A woman of 70 years, who was
buried at West Peabody, Mass, last
week, had never ridden on a horse car
or railroad train.
EARLY in January the temperature
In Southern and Central Australia. the
British Australian reports, ranged from
" i IA ShO SlAA0Cs
The youngest type-setter of whom
there is any record is the 9.year.o old
daughter of a New York newspaper
man. She does the work well.
Thus far this winter 1921 inches of
snow have fallen at Newport, Vt. The
average precipitation there during sew
eral winters past has been 97t.
Tho pauy anprrngo haI CO n.z-
Ayres, South America, will cost SlO,-
600, 060. The grounds cover twenty
acres IN the best part of the city.
AT ar auction sale Of a circus the
other day, Empress, an elephant, sold
for $1,000, while an African spotted
hyena was knocked down for S45.
"A burglar on Long Island, took
among other things, a cornet belonging
to an amateur. and the neighbors are
believed to be reconciled to his loss.
Several blocks in New York, ac-
cording to P. o. Inspector Darcy. are
"honeycombed" with the ''sawdust"
swindle and confidence games of other
sorts.
Jersey City reports a municipal
debt of less than SIG, 900. 900 with city
property and bonds enough to pay it. not
to speak OF nearly 81 millions of unpaid
taxes.
An extra session of the West Vir-
GINA Legislature has been called to
meet next month to consider railroad
and other subjects suggested by the
Governor.
German papers have accounts of a
wonderful remedy against h~ydrophobia,
said to have been in possession of a
family at Plzs, in Holland, for over a
century.
"A Newark, N. j., belle, who was
tripped up while dancing at a ball a
couple of weeks ago, is dying from the
result Of the accident, by which her
spine was injured.